The symptoms of aortic stenosis: a step closer to understanding their cause.

Abstract

R c c e i t t d d L d b L c The onset of the classic symptoms of aortic stenosis (AS), angina, syncope, and those of heart failure marks a dramatic worsening in the prognosis of the disease. Remarkably, there have been no specific hemodynamic markers predicting this critical change in clinical status. To be sure, the presence an aortic valve area of 1.0 cm… (More)